Life

Bishop Andriy was born Bohdan Peshko on April 27, 1972 in Ukraine. He completed his secondary education in 1989, after which he entered the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary from which he graduated in 1993. During the years 1994/1995, he undertook a year of postgraduate study at Christ the Saviour Seminary in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He completed his graduate studies at the Kiev Theological Academy, receiving a Master's degree in 1999.

Bohdan then returned to the United States, where he was ordained a deacon at St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Chicago by Archbishop Vsevolod of the Western Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, on April 8, 2001. On September 29, 2003 he was elevated to a rank of protodeacon. Dcn. Bohdan was tonsured as a monk in 2004, taking the new name of Andriy. Later that year, he was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Vsevolod and elevated to the rank of Hegumen.

On August 23, 2008, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the Extraordinary Church Sobor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada, Bishop Andriy, along with Bishop Ilarion (Rudnyk) (elected as bishop of Edmonton and of the Church's Western Eparchy, was elected Bishop of Saskatoon, and Vicar of the Central Eparchy. On February 1, 2011, Bp. Andriy assumed the responsibilities of Acting-Bishop of the Eastern Eparchy of the UOCC.